What do you miss about the 1990's

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The old Disney channel and the old Nickelodeon channels.

Toon Disney.

Nick game shows.

When oldie radio stations played 1950s and early 1960s music.

I was born in the late 70s. What I liked about the 90s is the scary militant chaos of the 80s cold war ended. No more crazy jack wagon as President. No more Be All That You Can Be Army recruiting commercials on TV. The threat of a nuclear war seemed over. And with Clinton we had a component President who gave us peace and prosperity.

I'm not sure if this counts...

My first 5 years of my life. I wanna remember them all. I want to understand it.

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Things worked better for me physically.
Grunge and a lot of Alternative Rock in general. It combined the hard rock/metal of my teen years with the rawness and attitude of punk rock from my young adult years.

When many TV shows were mainly targeted for grown-ups and children simultaneously rather than today's shows being targeted towards adults and shows being targeted towards children (and a lot of those new shows are pretty stupid! )

Video Games were you get some free stuff when you input cheats rather than pay actual money to buy DLCs.

Blockbuster (I wished they stayed in business if they made an app for a Roku, or something)

Pretty much everything was a lot senseful back then.

Now those days are gone.

OTOH, back then, I think there was a lack of understanding on autistic people at the time (correct me if I'm wrong, but that's one of the reasons why I had a bad childhood)

Thing I miss about the early 1990s is no mobile phones.

We were the last generation to sit next to a landline waiting for a phone call. We had to wait for the radio to play the latest music,

Watched TV with lots of funny advertisments, Get the news at 6.30pm rather than play video games or stare at brainless social media/internet all night.

Read books rather than listen to podcasts for information.

Old fashioned gatherings happened where people talked normally without pretending every 30 seconds to swipe on their phones looking for non-existent stimulation. Where people had real relationships. not asynchronous posts on forums or facetime with family.

From my perspective, there are plenty of things to like about the '90s and plenty of things to hate--and sometimes the very same thing is both a blessing and a curse.

What always amuses me about nostalgia threads or conversations like this is that inevitably someone talks about how much better-behaved people were, how kids these days are spoiled, how contemporary music is so much worse, and so on. At least one person hits those notes, or maybe several people do, but it doesn't EVER matter what era you're discussing! Hindsight very often wears rose-colored glasses.